Analysis of St. Jerome
Old man shivering on the rocks,
is that the moon
shrugging twilight over your shoulders now,
or a bitter wind shaping your face?
Speak to me.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (60%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11100101 1101 101101101 101011011 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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